Hello endo sisters and the people that love us! I wanted to send warm spring wishes your way. I love spring, and I love the scent of renewal it brings. This year I’m recovering from excision, so a new beginning is quite literally what I am hoping for. I hold the same hope for all … Continue reading Happy Easter, Joyeuses Pâques, God Paske

Hello sisters-please check out this newly launched organization, Endo Action Alliance (also on FB, Twitter and the usual suspects). Their call to action is “A Revolution to Bring Social Justice to Those with Endometriosis”. Once I’m on my feet again after this last bout with endo I which I plan to be victorious, I hope … Continue reading Join Me for the Revolution

Hey y’all-made it to the other side and am doing well after my second look lap. Pain is controlled and I’m binge-watching Girls tonight (I’ve never seen it! And Lena seemed an appropriate choice). I’ll be discharged in the morning. I like that my doctor encourages his patients to spend the night-makes life easier on … Continue reading Recovering…again

So it’s the night before my second look surgery. I’m only 4 days post excision and hyst/BSO, but my endopro likes to do a “second look” for adhesions. The sciecne behind this is if the healing process is interrupted at a certain point, and surgery is performed to remove the adhesions that have already started … Continue reading It’s Go Time: Excision Part Deux

Jhumka Gupta has a great article in HuffPost today about how we can change the trajectory of the social pathologies surrounding endometriosis. Please read the article and learn how you can become an interrupter–we need interrupters to help dispel the myths that plague endometriosis. One need not be a sufferer to interrupt, just as one … Continue reading Social Pathologies and Endo: Interrupt for change